Most Americans oversimplify every issue to being afraid of commies hiding in the bushes like they did in the 1950s. The major differences now are a much shorter attention span and much more superficial analytical process - spending as little time as possible taking in information before making an immediate value judgement and mentally swiping left or right.
This predates apps with left or right swiping features and goes back all the way back to the founding days of Fox News. The whole point was to gamify/sportify politics with pure propaganda to the point where you could never get enough political will to actually remove a president again. Which comes with building the demon of the Others narrative and everything else we know today.
Yes, swiping left/right was a metaphor for deciding something is good or bad.
Yup. Turns out everyone is on a team now, and it extends even to religion. Politics now determines your religion more than your religion determines your politics.
Edit: Oh, boy. downvoting facts again. Yes, of course YOU are not on a team. You are an INDEPENDENT THINKER that ONLY SEEKS THE TRUTH. I’m talking about those OTHER people.
The religious profiles of U.S. adults – how religious they are and what religion they identify with – are closely aligned with their partisan political identities, according to the new Religious Landscape Study (RLS).
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2025/02/26/religion-partisanship-and-ideology/out
